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Archive – July 2014

Please join us in congratulating Paul Steinhardt whose work on quasicrystals is
recognized in the name of a new mineral: Steinhardtite.
The mineral is described in an announcement from the International Mineralogical Association http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/STEINHARDTITE%20LETTER.pdf and
is described in a forthcoming paper in the American Mineralogist entitled "Steinhardtite, a new body-centered-cubic allotropic form of aluminum from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous